VHS videos and web cams - advice anyone?
Nov 2nd 2005, 8:38 pm
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VHS videos and web cams - advice anyone?
Hi all,
We're about to move to Oz shortly and need advice on two things:
1) Our toddler has some favorite VHS tapes that we'd like to bring. What's the score on compatibility. We know Oz is a different PAL system, but will bringing our UK player for playing only get over this?
2) Anyone using web cams to contact the UK? What are the requirements vis-a-vis broadband, what's the quality of communication like, and are there any makes of camera anyone would recommend? We've promised to look into this for the grandparents and buy some web cams before we go!
Your experience and advice would be very much appreciated. Thanks.
We're about to move to Oz shortly and need advice on two things:
1) Our toddler has some favorite VHS tapes that we'd like to bring. What's the score on compatibility. We know Oz is a different PAL system, but will bringing our UK player for playing only get over this?
2) Anyone using web cams to contact the UK? What are the requirements vis-a-vis broadband, what's the quality of communication like, and are there any makes of camera anyone would recommend? We've promised to look into this for the grandparents and buy some web cams before we go!
Your experience and advice would be very much appreciated. Thanks.
Nov 2nd 2005, 8:45 pm
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Re: VHS videos and web cams - advice anyone?
Originally Posted by theberrys
Hi all,
We're about to move to Oz shortly and need advice on two things:
1) Our toddler has some favorite VHS tapes that we'd like to bring. What's the score on compatibility. We know Oz is a different PAL system, but will bringing our UK player for playing only get over this?
2) Anyone using web cams to contact the UK? What are the requirements vis-a-vis broadband, what's the quality of communication like, and are there any makes of camera anyone would recommend? We've promised to look into this for the grandparents and buy some web cams before we go!
Your experience and advice would be very much appreciated. Thanks.
We're about to move to Oz shortly and need advice on two things:
1) Our toddler has some favorite VHS tapes that we'd like to bring. What's the score on compatibility. We know Oz is a different PAL system, but will bringing our UK player for playing only get over this?
2) Anyone using web cams to contact the UK? What are the requirements vis-a-vis broadband, what's the quality of communication like, and are there any makes of camera anyone would recommend? We've promised to look into this for the grandparents and buy some web cams before we go!
Your experience and advice would be very much appreciated. Thanks.
We took two UK tv's for spare family room together with VHS recorder and use those for playing tapes. Not sure if they will work otherwise. I have tried in other countries and they come out black and white.
We 'talk' every week to parents via webcam. We have a Logitech one which we got in PC world before we left. They also have the same one. We use MSN to chat and see them. If you just want to talk then you can use Skype. Quality can vary week to week, but generally ok. Sometimes you do get your voice back which can be a bit off putting but hey ho.
Vanessa
Nov 2nd 2005, 9:32 pm
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Re: VHS videos and web cams - advice anyone?
Buy a Logitech USB mic from PC World before you come have thicker wire and plug straight into usb port easier for skype then can use either headphones or PC speakers to hear.
Until I lost it we did use our Fuji 600 Digi Camera for webcam as well and got better quality off it than normal webcam. We did buy a sony handycam to use for same thing but we were miss sold it as turns out it doesn't video stream that's another one.
Until I lost it we did use our Fuji 600 Digi Camera for webcam as well and got better quality off it than normal webcam. We did buy a sony handycam to use for same thing but we were miss sold it as turns out it doesn't video stream that's another one.
Nov 3rd 2005, 9:07 pm
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Re: VHS videos and web cams - advice anyone?
Originally Posted by Vanessa
Hi,
We took two UK tv's for spare family room together with VHS recorder and use those for playing tapes. Not sure if they will work otherwise. I have tried in other countries and they come out black and white.
We 'talk' every week to parents via webcam. We have a Logitech one which we got in PC world before we left. They also have the same one. We use MSN to chat and see them. If you just want to talk then you can use Skype. Quality can vary week to week, but generally ok. Sometimes you do get your voice back which can be a bit off putting but hey ho.
Vanessa
We took two UK tv's for spare family room together with VHS recorder and use those for playing tapes. Not sure if they will work otherwise. I have tried in other countries and they come out black and white.
We 'talk' every week to parents via webcam. We have a Logitech one which we got in PC world before we left. They also have the same one. We use MSN to chat and see them. If you just want to talk then you can use Skype. Quality can vary week to week, but generally ok. Sometimes you do get your voice back which can be a bit off putting but hey ho.
Vanessa
Nov 3rd 2005, 10:37 pm
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Re: VHS videos and web cams - advice anyone?
Tend to just use skype for mic and or yahoo that does webcam plus mic and aol now does mic haven't come across the other one yet.
Nov 3rd 2005, 11:24 pm
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Re: VHS videos and web cams - advice anyone?
Originally Posted by annqldau
Tend to just use skype for mic and or yahoo that does webcam plus mic and aol now does mic haven't come across the other one yet.
MSN does mic aswell! works fine if you have BB.
Nov 4th 2005, 1:25 am
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Re: VHS videos and web cams - advice anyone?
Originally Posted by theberrys
Hi all,
We're about to move to Oz shortly and need advice on two things:
1) Our toddler has some favorite VHS tapes that we'd like to bring. What's the score on compatibility. We know Oz is a different PAL system, but will bringing our UK player for playing only get over this?
We're about to move to Oz shortly and need advice on two things:
1) Our toddler has some favorite VHS tapes that we'd like to bring. What's the score on compatibility. We know Oz is a different PAL system, but will bringing our UK player for playing only get over this?
From what I understand the only difference with the TV's & Video recorders are the UHF tuners, making it difficult (or not possible) to tune UK TV's & videos into Australian analogue terrestrial signals (through the an1tenna)
The TV's & Videos work fine using the A/V inputs, so to use a UK TV set here you need either a digital set top box or foxtel etc
